The first week here has been amazing! I love the MTC, and
being a missionary so much!
Wednesday was pretty much the scariest day of my life. After
Mom, Dad and Tanner dropped me off an Elder helped me with my bags and helped
me find a host Sister who could help me out. I got my badges (:D) and a few
other things then my host took me to my residency to drop off my bags and then
to my classroom. When I got into my classroom two or three elders and one
sister were already there. After a while one other Sister and my companion,
Sister P came in and then our teachers started talking with us, to be
honest, I can't remember what about. We then went to meet the MTC presidencies
and their wives, they talked to all the new missionaries about some really
great stuff, once again, I can't really remember what, but I do remember that
it was great. We closed with Army of Helaman, and in the chorus instead of
singing "We will be the Lord's missionaries" we sang "And we are
now the Lord's missionaries." which was really cool. Then we went to
dinner and had Wednesday Night Experience, which was pretty cool There was an
actor that was acting as an investigator, Elders knocked on their door, and
kind of got to know them a little bit, then they left and let us (a large
group) do the teaching. We did this three times with three different
investigators, the first time didn't go too well, we weren't able to get our
message across very effectively. The second one went really well, the
investigator had lost his wife to cancer and wasn't sure where she was now. We
were able to tell him about eternal families. It was a really cool moment. The
last question from a missionary and his answer was just such a strong moment. A
Sister asked him, "What if I could tell you a way that you could be
reunited with your wife and continue to be a family with her and your
children." He was quiet for a moment and then said, "Young lady, if I
could come to believe that, I would turn heaven and earth upside down to do
it." Then we were out of time and we had to go!! It was such a strong
moment to close on!
Thursday we had a People and Progress workshop, and we kind
of went over more of the stuff that we did on the Wednesday night experience,
finding out about people and how to figure out what they need to know and how
the gospel can help them. It was really cool. The days seem really long here,
and Thursday feels like a week ago, so I'm having a hard time remembering what
all we did. I think it was mostly just classes. OH! We did get assigned our
Progressing Investigators. Progressing Investigators are one of our teachers
portraying a person that they taught on their missions. Sister P and I
have ---. She's a mom of 5, she's married to an inactive member, but was
really introduced to the church through her Mother in law, when she moved next
door to ---'s family because she was sick. We met our Branch President, his
wife, one of the councilors and his wife. They are so great!
Friday was, once again, more classes, but Sister P and
I got to teach ---! It was a cool experience. We went in there so sure that
she needed to hear about Heavenly Father's love for her and ended up talking
about trials and why we have them. I don't think we got the point across very
well, but the spirit was there. We invited her to pray and ask Heavenly Father
if he loves her, she wasn't comfortable praying in front of us, but said she
would on her own. To be honest, I don't think she will... But Sister P and
I are already planning for our next lesson with her on Monday and we're going
to get her to pray with us, because we've learned how to comfort people's
concerns when they don't want to pray with us. The best part of Friday, though
was the last, about an hour or so of the day before we went back to our
residencies. At the MTC, you see all these districts hanging out and laughing
and having a great time. My district had been getting along, but we didn't
really know each other very well. After gym time (which was after dinner) we
had personal study and then companion study. The Sisters got a little
distracted and instead of doing companion study we just started chatting. The
last half hour or so two of the Elders came in to let us know what time it was,
or something (I can't really remember) and we just started talking and laughing
with them too, then the other two Elders came in and we just got to know each
other, and we were laughing and talking and having a great time for about 15-30
minutes. It was so great to get to know the Elders and get really comfortable
with them. The really cool part was that we were just talking about things
we're interested in, nothing church related, but we still closed by sharing
some scriptures and a prayer. No one said "We should close this with
scriptures" or anything, one of the Elders just said, "Hey, I want to
share a scripture with all of you." Then it reminded a couple of us about
other scriptures.
I guess I should introduce my District now (:
The Sisters are Sister P and I, Sister P is my
companion and she is amazing. She has such a strong spirit and testimony about
her. I've never met someone that has their testimony about them, if that makes
any sense, I can just almost feel her testimony when we're talking about the
gospel! The other Sisters are Sister O and Sister G, they are great
Sisters, and I'm so glad I get to share a residency with them! We all get along
so well! The Elders are Elder G and Elder A, and Elder S and
Elder M. I don't have any pictures of us this week ): but I will next
week, I promise!! Sister P and I are the oldest. (She's also 21, but I'm a
month older ha-ha) and we're also the only ones in our district going to the
Oklahoma Tulsa Mission, the rest of our district is headed to St. Louis, Missouri. We all have very different
personalities, but we all mix together so well!! It is so cool! I love learning
from these other missionaries!!
So today is my P-day (obviously), and in a couple of hours
we get to go to the temple! I'm really excited to not only experience the
temple, but to experience it as a missionary with the amazing Sisters in my
district!
This is such a great place to be! I'm so happy to be here!
Love,
SISTER FLECK
(^That's me!! WOW!!!!)
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